Jesus, fuck! How many nutters do we have “advising” the President? I know Ashcroft thought that calico cats are spawns of the devil, but I thought that was the limit of the whackjobs (the rest merely being inept, corrupt, or borderline evil, with a possible perv or two thrown in for good measure).
What the hell’s next? Condi Rice thinks we live inside the Earth? Karl Rove’s a Flat Earther? How the fuck can we possibly expect to have a President who can be trusted to do anything right, if he’s got such whackos giving him advice? So much for us being able to claim we’ll be able to beat the kooky muslim fundies who want to turn the clock back a thousand years or so, because we’re a nation which believes in science! :rolleyes: Obviously, the pople running this country are just as superstitious and misguided as those we’re in opposition to. I’m really starting to hope aliens show up and wipe the lot of us out.
Seriously though, your words made me think about the us versus them scenario that is played out in western medias around the world. Them being the ‘baddies’ because they are (as you said) backward-thinking and reactionary…while the ‘good guys’ (us) are, um, just of the same mindset really. :rolleyes:
I think I might migrate to Antartica and hang out with the penguins for a bit. They seem like an eminently sensible bunch of critters.
Licking an ice cream cone is eating like a dog? And that is why it’s shameful? That’s a new one.
I’d have bet anything it was shameful because it’s sexually suggestive, and because one time Leon Kass was watching children eat ice cream and all of a sudden he had some pedophilic thoughts and he was like, “Whoa, where did that come from?”
He didn’t say he was opposed to licking ice cream cones, per se. He was complaining about people eating in public, which he regards as boorish and uncouth behavior. Licking an ice cream cone was given as an example.
A little snooty and old fashioned, certainly, but not “wackjob”.
Well, technically, he’s saying that doing it in public is wrong…that eating anything on the street is wrong. He’s just using the ice cream cone as an example.
Lots of people hold odd, even silly idiomatic views. If Kass were a Congressman and was cluttering up the rolls with anti-ice cream laws, fine pit him. You got something of substance against this guy, lay it out; otherwise this is a Reederesque waste of electrons.
No, he is a fucking whack-job. Anybody 150 years out of date is one, kinda by definition. Besides, ice cream cones were made for eating in public. That Kass is advising the White House doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Wait a sec. Calling eating in public “boorish and uncouth behavior” makes him less of a whack job? :dubious: How the hell is that “snooty and old fashioned”? People have been eating in public since the dawn of time.
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Actually, I did, as I would have liked to have found classicvalues.com primary source (which they don’t link to).
Were he on the President’s Advisory Committee for Etiquette, it wouldn’t bother me (since he could perhaps convince Bush that yelling, “Yo! Blair!” isn’t the kind of thing a world leader’s supposed to do), but he’s on the Bioethics Advisory Committee. This is not some area where I want the person giving advice to the President to have some kind of weird hangup. Why? Because if he has some weird hang up about a minor issue like this, and can’t say, “I know it’s a weird hang up, but I’ve got it.” then when it comes to something important he’s liable to not realize that his opinion on the matter might be caused by another one of his hang ups.
Exactly, I was sort of wondering at what point in human history we considered eating a private activity. Eating on the street is something that was done about an hour after the first street was built.
You must not remember the Reagan years, Tuckerfan. He had psychics advising him–yes, actual woo-woo PSYCHICS; that makes this guy look positively normal by comparison. We survived. This is nothing to get your panties in a bunch over.
Actually, it was Nancy who had the woo-woo fetisch, and it was astrologers that she had the fetish for. (Not that that’s any better, mind you.) According to the folks in the White House running things, they humored Nancy and rearranged Ronnie’s schedule for more “auspicious” dates when Nancy had issues. However, the astrologer’s were not reporting directly to Ronnie (or to Bush 1.0 who was rumored to be running the country at that point) and were not on an official committee. There’s a big. fuck, difference.
